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Detroit Post 




St. Paul, 1896 




FIRST CORPS. 



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SECOND CORPS. 




MICHIGAN CENTRAL STATION. 
DETROIT, MICH. 



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THIRD CORPS. 



Detroit Post 

No. 384 

a. A. R. 



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FOURTH CORPS. 




OFFICERS OF DETROIT POST 
NO. 384, G. A. R. 

1896 
Commander, - - - - Charles Dupont. 
Senior Vice-Commander. Charles E. Foote. 
Junior Vice-Commander, William H. Baxter. 

^^j^ta***' James T. Beadle. 

Quartermaster, - - - . Jacob Bristol. 
Surgeon, - - - . William H. H. Hutton. 
Chaplain, ----- Jqhn W. Andrews. 
Officer of the Day, - Charles G. Hampton. 
Officer of the Guard, - - Thomas P. Jones. 
Sergeant Major, - - - - Nicholas Woods. 
Quartermaster Sergeant, Charles C. Snedeker. 



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ITINERARY OF SPECIAL TRAIN 

SIXTH CORPS. 

DETROIT to ST. PAUL 

VIA 

Michigan ( Tenth al 

Lv Detroit, August 30, 1896 i .00 pm 

Lv Ypsilanti i . 50 pm 

Lv Ann Arbor 2.05 pm 

Lv Jackson 2 . 50 pm 

Lv Albion 3-37 pm 

Lv Marshall 3-58 pm 

Lv Battle Creek 4.24 pm 

Lv Kalamazoo 5 -02 pm 

Ar Niles (Supper)... 6.33 pm 

Lv Niles 7 ■ 10 pm 

Ar Chicago 10.30 pm 

VIA CHICAGO & NORTH-WESTERN. 

Lv Chicago, August 31 12.05 am 

Ar Merrillan (Breakfast) 9.00 am 

Ar St. Paul 1.05 pm 



HEADQUARTERS AT ST. PAUL 
RYAN HOUSE 



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Past officers. 



Commander, 

S. V. Commander, 

J. V. Commander, 

Commander, 

S. V. Commander, 

J. V. Commander, 

Commander, - - 
S. V. Commander, 
J. V. Commander. 



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- Henry M. Duffield. 

- - George H. Hopkins. 

- - Hazen S. Pingreb. 
1888 

- Henry M. Duffield. 

- - George H. Hopkins. 

- - William S. Green. 
1889 

- - George H. Hopkins. 

- - William S. Green. 

- - Leverette N. Case. 



1890-1891 

Commander, ; - - - William S. Green. 
J. V. Commander, - - Leverette N. Case 
J. V. Commander, - - - James T. Sterling. 
1892 

- Lewis H. Chamberlin. 
- - - ZiBA B. Graham. 

- - Oscar R. Looker. 

1893 

- Everard B. Welton. 

- - Thomas S. McGraw. 

- Frank C. Trowbridge. 

1894 

Thomas A. Wadsworth. 
Charles C. Chadwick, 

- - - George T. Jack. 

1895 

- - Leverftte N. Case. 

- - James T. Sterling. 

- - Albert E. Bigelow. 



Commander, - 
S. V. Commander, 
J. V. Commander, 



Commander, 

S. V. Commander, 

J. V. Commander, 



Commander, 

S. V. Commander, 

J. V. Commander, 



Commander, - ■ 
S. V. Commander, 
J. V. Commander, 



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Detroit Post No. 384. 

Department of Michigan, G. A. R. 



The organization of the Post was 
perfected May 26, 1887, pursuant to a 
preliminary meeting May 5th, when 
application for a charter was made, 
and on the following evening, May 27th, 
at the parlors of the Light Guard in 
the Firemen's Hall building, the offi- 
cers where installed by Department 
Commander Rutherford. On this oc- 
casion there where sixty-two charter 
members present, forty-nine of whom 
were already members of the Grand 
Army, with thirteen recruits. The Post 
now enjoys very desirable quarters in 
conjunction with the Michigan Com- 
mandery of the Loyal Legion at Nos. 
58 and 60 West Congress Street, which 
are handsomely fitted up with all the 



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conveniences for such an organization, 
with the added features of a military 
club. 

The membership is limited to 150, 
which number is usually fully borne on 
the muster rolls, vacancies being usually 
quickly filled as they occur. All of its 
members served as volunteers during 
the War of the Rebellion, a few serv- 
ing also in the regular army and 
navy. United by their patriotic devo- 
tion to the Republic and its flag, its 
members were born in twelve different 
states and eight foreign countries, the 
larger number, forty-three, being na- 
tives of Michigan, and thirty -eight 
natives of New York. They represent 
eighty -eight different regiments or 
organizations, without counting the ad- 
ditional ones represented by fifteen 
members who served in more than one 
command. The infantry is represented 
by ninety-two members; cavalry, twenty- 
eight; artillery, fifteen; engineers, three; 



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sharpshooters, two; and the navy, seven. 
All ranks are represented, sixty -six 
having served as non-commissioned 
officers and fifty as privates and sea- 
men. The average at enlistment was 
about twenty-one years. 

Col. Fox in his "Regimental Losses" 
devotes especial attention to " 300 fight- 
ing regiments," embracing every regi- 
ment in the Union Armies that sus- 
tained a loss of over 130 killed and 
died of wounds during the war. The 
membership of the Detroit Post No. 384 
represents thirty-two of these regiments. 

The Post paraded with forty men at 
the National Encampment of i8qo in 
Boston, and in 1891 played the part 
of host at the Detroit Encampment, 
leading the parade of August 5th with 
over 100 members in line as escort to 
the Commander-in-Chief. At the Na- 
tional Encampment of 1892, it took a 
prominent part as escort to the Depart- 
ment Commander in the parade of 



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September 20th, with four platoons, 
color guard and full complement of 
officers, headed by a first -class band 
of music. The following year it par- 
ticipated with a band of the United 
States Infantry in the parade of the 
National Encampment at Indianapolis, 
receiving many encomiums as the best 
disciplined and most attractively uni- 
formed post in the parade. 

In 1894 it attended the Pittsburg 
National Encampment and entered the 
parade with upwards of fifty members 
and its own band, which accompanied 
it from Detroit. 

In 1895 it paraded in Louisville with 
five platoons and attracted universal 
attention, receiving one continuous ap- 
plause from start to finish. One distin- 
guished member of the G. A. R., seated 
on the grand stand with the Commander- 
in-Chief, enthusiastically exclaimed, "I 
would rather be Commander of Detroit 
than Commander-in-Chief of the G. A. R." 



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It called in a body on that distinguished 
rebel, General Buckner, and paid its 
respects to him, an act which did much 
to heal any feelings of enmity still exist- 
ing in the minds of the southern people 
of that locality. The Post was hand- 
somely entertained at several private 
residences, and received from the most 
prominent citizens of the city the highest 
encomiums. 




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Notes on St. Paul. 

BY JULIAN RALPH. 

JN EIGHT YEARS St. Paul has made 
tremendous strides away from the 
habits and methods of civic childhood. 
Its officials say that more has been done 
to establish its character as a finished 
city than will ever need to be done in 
the future. Its expenditures of energy 
and money have been remarkable. It 
has leveled its hills, filled its marshes 
and modernized all its conveniences. 
The water-works, which were the prop- 
erty of individuals, now belong to the 
people, and serve two hundred miles 
of mains with pure, wholesome water 
brought from a group of lakes ten 
miles north of the city. A noted firm 
of water-works builders has declared 
that it would willingly assume the city 
debt in return for the profits of this 
branch of the public service. No city 



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in the country is better drained than it 
is by its new sewer system. It had a 
mile and a half of improved streets and 
three stone sidewalks eight years ago, 
and to-day it possesses forty-five miles 
of finished streets and fifty miles of 
stone sidewalks. Two costly bridges 
have been put across the Mississippi 
and an important bridge has been re- 
built. In no city in the West is the 
railroad grade-crossing bugaboo more 
nearly exorcised. Only one notable 
crossing of that sort endangers the peo- 
ple's lives and limbs. The public build- 
ings of the city are admirable, and were 
built at moderate cost and without six- 
pence worth of scandal. The restricted 
saloon system is enforced there and the 
residence districts are kept sacred to 
home influences and surroundings. The 
streets are thoroughly policed, and the 
fire department is practically new and 
appointed with the most modern appli- 
ances. The street-car service consists 



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of nearly one hundred miles of electric 
railway and fifteen miles of cable road. 
There are no horse-cars in use in the 
city; they would be too slow for such a 
town. St. Paul is rich in costly and 
great office buildings. There are a 
dozen such, any and all of which would 
ornament any city in the country. 
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With uncalled-for modesty St. Paul's 
leading men apologize for the absence 
of a royal series of great parks and 
assert that they have now designed and 
begun work upon such a system. They 
admit that they possess thirty-two little 
squares for children and adult pleasure- 
seekers, and say that the city and its 
environs are so park-like that the need 
of great public lungs has not been 
pressing. The apology should be gra- 
ciously accepted. It reconciles us with 
what we know of ordinary humanity in 
our comparatively torpid Eastern cities 
to find them weak in one respect. But 



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St. Paul does not lack all elegance and 
ornament of the highest and most mod- 
ern order. In one boulevard, called 
Summit Avenue, it possesses one of the 
noblest thoroughfares and the nucleus 
of one of the most impressive collec- 
tions of great mansions in the country. 
Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, has long 
ceased to lead the rich residence streets 
of the nation, for Chicago has more 
than one finer street of the same char- 
acter, and so has Buffalo, and so has 
New York since Riverside Avenue has 
begun to build up. None of these has 
the beauty which the Hudson River and 
its Palisades lend to Riverside Avenue, 
but a good second to it is Summit 
Avenue, St. Paul. From its mansions, 
rising upon a tall bluff, the panorama 
of a great and beautiful countryside is 
commanded. 

It may be necessary to say to the 
untraveled Eastern reader that the ap- 
pointments—and the tenants— of these 



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mansions reflect the best modern attain- 
ments of civilization as it has been 
studied in the capitals of the world. 
One, at least, among these houses has 
not its superior in New York, so far as 
its size, its beauty and the character of 
its surroundings are concerned. In its 
appointments it will be found that the 
elegances and art triumphs of far more 
than Christendom have been levied 
upon to testify to a taste that at no point 
oversteps the limits cultivation has es- 
tablished. On the walls a number of 
the masterpieces of the Barbizon school 
hang side by side with the best efforts 
of Munkacsy, Diaz, Tadema, Detaille, 
Meissonier and many other masters. 
Barye bronzes have their places in 
various rooms and the literature of two 
continents, freshened by the constant 
arrival of the best periodicals, is ready 
at hand and well marked by use. 
Despite its ornaments, it is maintained 
quite as a home, and solely for comfort. 




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It is but one of the several mansions 
in these two far Western cities. They 
are as representative as the palaces of 
Fifth Avenue, evidencing nothing of 
taste that is not shared and reflected in 
the other homes of those communities. 
Once again we come to the heart of 
any such study of a city's capacity for 
growth in importance and wealth. St. 
Paul, in 1881, manufactured $15,466,000 
worth of goods with which to trade 
with the Northwest; in 1890 the sum 
had grown to $61,270,000, an increase of 
three hundred per cent, in nine years. 
The city is the dairy center of the 
Northwest. It has made great invest- 
ments in the manufacture of clothing, 
boots and shoes, fine furniture, wagons, 
carriages, farm implements, lager beer, 
cigars, fur garments, portable houses for 
settlers, dressed stone, boilers, bridges, 
and the products of large stock-yards. 
To a less, yet considerable extent, it 
manufactures crackers, candy, flour, bed- 



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ding, foundry work, sashes and blinds, 
harness, brass goods, barrels, brooms and r 
brushes. Its banks have a capital of| 
$10,000,000; its jobbing trade amounted ' 
to $122,000,000 in 1890; it did a business 
in cattle of every sort to the extent of 
a million head in the same year. It : 
has fine hotels and opera houses, a typi- 
cally elaborate Western school system,, 
and is in all respects a healthy, vigor- -^ 
ous, well-governed city. ! 

Harper s Magazine, March, i8q2. 





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